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ica was made in England ; to-day it is chiefly 

 made in East Cambridge, which also furnishes the 

 twine prized by disciples of Izaak Walton in many 

 parts of the world. Last year the potteries on 

 Walden Street turned out seven million flower- 

 pots. Such facts as these bear witness to the un- 

 usual facilities of our city, where coal can be taken 

 and freight can be shipped at the very door of the 

 factory, where taxes and insurance are not burden- 

 some and the fire department is unsurpassed for 

 efficiency, where skilled labour is easy to get because 

 good workmen find life comfortable and attractive, 

 with excellent sanitary conditions and unrivalled 

 means of free education, even to the Latin School 

 and the Manual Training School. It is well said, 

 in one of the reports in our semi-centennial vol- 

 ume, that " to Cambridge herself, as much as to 

 any other one thing, is the success of all her manu- 

 facturing enterprises due, and all agree in acknow- 

 ledging it." 



Among Cambridge industries, two may be men- 

 tioned as especially characteristic and famous. Of 

 the printing establishments now existing, not many 

 can be more venerable than our University Press, 

 of which we have spoken as beginning in 1639. 

 Of the wise and genial founder of the Eiverside 

 Press who once was mayor of our city, and 



